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[CM#53][cm53b10.txt]3890 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52b10.txt]3889 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51b10.txt]3888 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50b10.txt]3887 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49b10.txt]3886 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48b10.txt]3885 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47b10.txt]3884 +Mar 2003 The Entire Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset [CM#46][cm46b10.txt]3883 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v7 [CM#45][cm45b10.txt]3882 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v6 [CM#44][cm44b10.txt]3881 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v5 [CM#43][cm43b10.txt]3880 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v4 [CM#42][cm42b10.txt]3879 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v3 [CM#41][cm41b10.txt]3878 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v2 [CM#40][cm40b10.txt]3877 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v1 [CM#39][cm39b10.txt]3876 +Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon[CM#38][cm38b10.txt]3875 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v15 [CM#37][cm37b10.txt]3874 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v14 [CM#36][cm36b10.txt]3873 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v13 [CM#35][cm35b10.txt]3872 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v12 [CM#34][cm34b10.txt]3871 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v11 [CM#33][cm33b10.txt]3870 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v10 [CM#32][cm32b10.txt]3869 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v9 [CM#31][cm31b10.txt]3868 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v8 [CM#30][cm30b10.txt]3867 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v7 [CM#29][cm29b10.txt]3866 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v6 [CM#28][cm28b10.txt]3865 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v5 [CM#27][cm27b10.txt]3864 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v4 [CM#26][cm26b10.txt]3863 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v3 [CM#25][cm25b10.txt]3862 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v2 [CM#24][cm24b10.txt]3861 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v1 [CM#23][cm23b10.txt]3860 +Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22b10.txt]3859 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21b10.txt]3858 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20b10.txt]3857 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v2[CM#19][cm19b10.txt]3856 +Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v1[CM#18][cm18b10.txt]3855 +Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [CM#17][cm17b10.txt]3854 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v7 [CM#16][cm16b10.txt]3853 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v6 [CM#15][cm15b10.txt]3852 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v5 [CM#14][cm14b10.txt]3851 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v4 [CM#13][cm13b10.txt]3850 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v3 [CM#12][cm12b10.txt]3849 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v2 [CM#11][cm11b10.txt]3848 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v1 [CM#10][cm10b10.txt]3847 +Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [CM#09][cm09b10.txt]3846 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v4 [CM#08][cm08b10.txt]3845 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v3 [CM#07][cm07b10.txt]3844 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v2 [CM#06][cm06b10.txt]3843 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v1 [CM#05][cm05b10.txt]3842 +Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [CM#04][cm04b10.txt]3841 +Mar 2003 The History of the House of Valois, v3 [CM#03][cm03b10.txt]3840 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v2 [CM#02][cm02b10.txt]3839 +Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v1 [CM#01][cm01b10.txt]3838 + + + + + + HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS IN 62 VOLUMES + + + + THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, v1 +[CM#01][cm01b10.txt]3838 + +Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd +Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully +Everything in the world bore a double aspect +Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice +Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends +I should praise you more had you praised me less +It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery +Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred +Necessity is said to be the mother of invention +Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference +Not to repose too much confidence in our friends +Prefer truth to embellishment +Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy +The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day +To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability +Troubles might not be lasting +Young girls seldom take much notice of children + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, V2 +[CM#02][cm02b10.txt]3839 + +Envy and malice are self-deceivers +Honours and success are followed by envy +Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another +Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope +The pretended reformed religion +There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest +Those who have given offence to hate the offended party + + + + +THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF VALOIS, V3 +[CM#03][cm03b10.txt]3840 + +From faith to action the bridge is short +Much is forgiven to a king +Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France +The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace + + + + +THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS +[CM#04][cm04b10.txt]3841 + +Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd +Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully +Envy and malice are self-deceivers +Everything in the world bore a double aspect +From faith to action the bridge is short +Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice +Honours and success are followed by envy +Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends +I should praise you more had you praised me less +It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery +Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another +Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred +Much is forgiven to a king +Necessity is said to be the mother of invention +Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference +Not to repose too much confidence in our friends +Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France +Prefer truth to embellishment +Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy +Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope +The pretended reformed religion +The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day +The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace +There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest +Those who have given offence to hate the offended party +To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability +Troubles might not be lasting +Young girls seldom take much notice of children + + + + + + + THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ + + +THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V1 +[CM#05][cm05b10.txt]3842 + +Assurrance often supplies the room of good sense +By the means of a hundred pistoles down, and vast promises +False glory and false modesty +He knew how to put a good gloss upon his failings +He weighed everything, but fixed on nothing +Is there a greater in the world than heading a party? +Nothing is so subject to delusion as piety +So indiscreet as to boast of his successful amours +Verily believed he was really the man which he affected to be + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V2 +[CM#06][cm06b10.txt]3843 + +Always to sacrifice the little affairs to the greater +Always judged of actions by men, and never men by their actions +Arms which are not tempered by laws quickly become anarchy +Associating patience with activity +Blindness that make authority to consist only in force +Bounty, which, though very often secret, had the louder echo +Civil war is one of those complicated diseases +Clergy always great examples of slavish servitude +Confounded the most weighty with the most trifling +Contempt--the most dangerous disease of any State +Dangerous to refuse presents from one's superiors +Distinguished between bad and worse, good and better +Fading flowers, which are fragrant to-day and offensive tomorrow +Fool in adversity and a knave in prosperity +Fools yield only when they cannot help it +Good news should be employed in providing against bad +He had not a long view of what was beyond his reach +His wit was far inferior to his courage +His ideas were infinitely above his capacity +Impossible for her to live without being in love with somebody +Inconvenience of popularity +Kinds of fear only to be removed by higher degrees of terror +Laws without the protection of arms sink into contempt +Maxims showed not great regard for virtue +More ambitious than was consistent with morality +My utmost to save other souls, though I took no care of my own +Need of caution in what we say to our friends +Neither capable of governing nor being governed +Men of irresolution are apt to catch at all overtures +Never had woman more contempt for scruples and ceremonies +Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous +One piece of bad news seldom comes singly +Only way to acquire them is to show that we do not value them +Poverty so well became him +Power commonly keeps above ridicule +Pretended to a great deal more wit than came to his share +Queen was adored much more for her troubles than for her merit +Strongest may safely promise to the weaker what he thinks fit +Those who carry more sail than ballast +Thought he always stood in need of apologies +Transitory honour is mere smoke +Treated him as she did her petticoat +Useful man in a faction because of his wonderful complacency +Vanity to love to be esteemed the first author of things +Virtue for a man to confess a fault than not to commit one +We are far more moved at the hearing of old stories +Weakening and changing the laws of the land +Whose vivacity supplied the want of judgment +Wisdom in affairs of moment is nothing without courage +With a design to do good, he did evil +Yet he gave more than he promised + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V3 +[CM#07][cm07b10.txt]3844 + +Buckingham had been in love with three Queens +Civil war as not powerful enough to conclude a peace +Insinuation is of more service than that of persuasion +Man that supposed everybody had a back door +Mazarin: embezzling some nine millions of the public money +Passed for the author of events of which I was only the prophet +The subdivision of parties is generally the ruin of all +The wisest fool he ever saw in his life +Who imagine the head of a party to be their master + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V4 +[CM#08][cm08b10.txt]3845 + +Help to blind the rest of mankind, and they even become blinder +She had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone +You must know that, with us Princes, words go for nothing + + + + +THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ +[CM#09][cm09b10.txt]3846 + +Always judged of actions by men, and never men by their actions +Always to sacrifice the little affairs to the greater +Arms which are not tempered by laws quickly become anarchy +Associating patience with activity +Assurrance often supplies the room of good sense +Blindness that make authority to consist only in force +Bounty, which, though very often secret, had the louder echo +Buckingham had been in love with three Queens +By the means of a hundred pistoles down, and vast promises +Civil war as not powerful enough to conclude a peace +Civil war is one of those complicated diseases +Clergy always great examples of slavish servitude +Confounded the most weighty with the most trifling +Contempt--the most dangerous disease of any State +Dangerous to refuse presents from one's superiors +Distinguished between bad and worse, good and better +Fading flowers, which are fragrant to-day and offensive tomorrow +False glory and false modesty +Fool in adversity and a knave in prosperity +Fools yield only when they cannot help it +Good news should be employed in providing against bad +He weighed everything, but fixed on nothing +He knew how to put a good gloss upon his failings +He had not a long view of what was beyond his reach +Help to blind the rest of mankind, and they even become blinder +His ideas were infinitely above his capacity +His wit was far inferior to his courage +Impossible for her to live without being in love with somebody +Inconvenience of popularity +Insinuation is of more service than that of persuasion +Is there a greater in the world than heading a party? +Kinds of fear only to be removed by higher degrees of terror +Laws without the protection of arms sink into contempt +Man that supposed everybody had a back door +Maxims showed not great regard for virtue +Mazarin: embezzling some nine millions of the public money +Men of irresolution are apt to catch at all overtures +More ambitious than was consistent with morality +My utmost to save other souls, though I took no care of my own +Need of caution in what we say to our friends +Neither capable of governing nor being governed +Never had woman more contempt for scruples and ceremonies +Nothing is so subject to delusion as piety +Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous +One piece of bad news seldom comes singly +Only way to acquire them is to show that we do not value them +Passed for the author of events of which I was only the prophet +Poverty so well became him +Power commonly keeps above ridicule +Pretended to a great deal more wit than came to his share +Queen was adored much more for her troubles than for her merit +She had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone +So indiscreet as to boast of his successful amours +Strongest may safely promise to the weaker what he thinks fit +The subdivision of parties is generally the ruin of all +The wisest fool he ever saw in his life +Those who carry more sail than ballast +Thought he always stood in need of apologies +Transitory honour is mere smoke +Treated him as she did her petticoat +Useful man in a faction because of his wonderful complacency +Vanity to love to be esteemed the first author of things +Verily believed he was really the man which he affected to be +Virtue for a man to confess a fault than not to commit one +We are far more moved at the hearing of old stories +Weakening and changing the laws of the land +Who imagine the head of a party to be their master +Whose vivacity supplied the want of judgment +Wisdom in affairs of moment is nothing without courage +With a design to do good, he did evil +Yet he gave more than he promised +You must know that, with us Princes, words go for nothing + + + + + + THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V1 +[CM#10][cm10b10.txt]3847 + +Armed with beauty and sarcasm +Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments +Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day +Depicting other figures she really portrays her own +In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife +In Rome justice and religion always rank second to politics +Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command +Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper +Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King +Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry +Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel +That Which Often It is Best to Ignore +Violent passion had changed to mere friendship +When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous +Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house +Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V2 +[CM#11][cm11b10.txt]3848 + +Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists +Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician +Extravagant, without the means to be so +Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be +Poetry without rhapsody +Present princes and let those be scandalised who will! +Satire without bitterness +Talent without artifice +The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there +Then comes discouragement; after that, habit +Trust not in kings +What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings +When one has seen him, everything is excusable +Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V3 +[CM#12][cm12b10.txt]3849 + +And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve +Hate me, but fear me +He was not fool enough for his place +I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness) +In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal +It is easier to offend me than to deceive me +Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King +Madame de Sevigne +Time, the irresistible healer +Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else +Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all +When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V4 +[CM#13][cm13b10.txt]3850 + +All the death-in-life of a convent +Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude +In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V5 +[CM#14][cm14b10.txt]3851 + +Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself +He contradicted me about trifles +Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed +Jealous without motive, and almost without love +The King replied that "too much was too much" +The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire +There is an exaggeration in your sorrow + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V6 +[CM#15][cm15b10.txt]3852 + +Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment +Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss +Respectful without servility +She awaits your replies without interruption +These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple +Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit +You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants + + + + +THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V7 +[CM#16][cm16b10.txt]3853 + +Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes +Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say +Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done +Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe + + + +THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN +[CM#17][cm17b10.txt]3854 + +All the death-in-life of a convent +Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment +Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes +And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve +Armed with beauty and sarcasm +Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists +Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments +Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day +Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude +Depicting other figures she really portrays her own +Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician +Extravagant, without the means to be so +Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself +Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be +Hate me, but fear me +He contradicted me about trifles +He was not fool enough for his place +I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness) +In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal +In Rome justice and religion always rank second to politics +In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene +In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife +Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed +It is easier to offend me than to deceive me +Jealous without motive, and almost without love +Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command +Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King +Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper +Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King +Madame de Sevigne +Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry +Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel +Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss +Poetry without rhapsody +Present princes and let those be scandalised who will! +Respectful without servility +Satire without bitterness +Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say +She awaits your replies without interruption +Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done +Talent without artifice +That Which Often It is Best to Ignore +The King replied that "too much was too much" +The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire +The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there +Then comes discouragement; after that, habit +There is an exaggeration in your sorrow +These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple +Time, the irresistible healer +Trust not in kings +Violent passion had changed to mere friendship +Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else +Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all +What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings +When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous +When one has seen him, everything is excusable +When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so +Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house +Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit +Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe +Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words +Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that +You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants + + + + + + + MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCHESSE D'ORLEANS + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V1 +[CM#18][cm18b10.txt]3855 + +A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her +Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests +Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion +Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass +Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly +Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God +Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things +Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions +Great filthiness in the interior of their houses +Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles +He always slept in the Queen's bed +He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant +He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses +Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen) +I am unquestionably very ugly +I formed a religion of my own +I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at +I never take medicine but on urgent occasions +It was not permitted to argue with him +Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly) +Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write +Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect +My husband proposed separate beds +No man more ignorant of religion than the King was +Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices +Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion +Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy +Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror) +So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King +Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV) +The old woman (Madame Maintenon) +To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon) +To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children +You are a King; you weep, and yet I go +You never look in a mirror when you pass it + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V2 +[CM#19][cm19b10.txt]3856 + +Always has a fictitious malady in reserve +I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two +I wished the husband not to be informed of it +Old Maintenon +Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied +That what he called love was mere debauchery + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V3 +[CM#20][cm20b10.txt]3857 + +Bad company spoils good manners +Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor +Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health +It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself +Like will to like + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V4 +[CM#21][cm21b10.txt]3858 + +But all shame is extinct in France +Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses +Honour grows again as well as hair +I thought I should win it, and so I lost it +If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough? +Only your illegitimate daughter +Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz +She never could be agreeable to women +Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness +Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess +Subject to frequent fits of abstraction +Throw his priest into the Necker + + + + +ENTIRE MEMOIRS LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS +[CM#22][cm22b10.txt]3859 + +A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her +Always has a fictitious malady in reserve +Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests +Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion +Bad company spoils good manners +Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass +But all shame is extinct in France +Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor +Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly +Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God +Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses +Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things +Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions +Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health +Great filthiness in the interior of their houses +Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles +He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant +He always slept in the Queen's bed +He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses +Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen) +Honour grows again as well as hair +I thought I should win it, and so I lost it +I never take medicine but on urgent occasions +I wished the husband not to be informed of it +I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at +I am unquestionably very ugly +I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two +I formed a religion of my own +If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough? +It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself +It was not permitted to argue with him +Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly) +Like will to like +Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write +Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect +My husband proposed separate beds +No man more ignorant of religion than the King was +Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices +Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion +Old Maintenon +Only your illegitimate daughter +Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz +Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied +Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy +Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror) +She never could be agreeable to women +Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness +So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King +Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV) +Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess +Subject to frequent fits of abstraction +That what he called love was mere debauchery +The old woman (Madame Maintenon) +Throw his priest into the Necker +To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children +To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon) +You never look in a mirror when you pass it +You are a King; you weep, and yet I go + + + + + + + MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY THE DUC de SAINT-SIMON + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V1 +[CM#23][cm23b10.txt]3860 + +Aptitude did not come up to my desire +Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things +Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped +He had pleased (the King) by his drugs +King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens +Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received +Make religion a little more palpable +Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile +Mightily tired of masters and books +More facility I have as King to gratify myself +My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors +People who had only sores to share +Persuaded themselves they understood each other +Received all the Court in her bed +Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms +Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice +Sulpicians +The safest place on the Continent +Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses +With him one's life was safe + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V2 +[CM#24][cm24b10.txt]3861 + + +But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity +He limped audaciously +Height to which her insignificance had risen +His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends +His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks +In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself +Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America +No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools +Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived +Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it +She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel +The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar +The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured +Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe +World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V3 +[CM#25][cm25b10.txt]3862 + +A King's son, a King's father, and never a King +Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything +He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge +Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting +Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life +Spoke only about as much as three or four women +Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince +The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts +The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies +Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V4 +[CM#26][cm26b10.txt]3863 + +His great piety contributed to weaken his mind +Of a politeness that was unendurable +Reproaches rarely succeed in love +Spoil all by asking too much +Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose +There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V5 +[CM#27][cm27b10.txt]3864 + +Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture +Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest +Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared +Promotion was granted according to length of service + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V6 +[CM#28][cm28b10.txt]3865 + +Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily +Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne +Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch +He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it +Indiscreet and tyrannical charity +Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs +Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V7 +[CM#29][cm29b10.txt]3866 + +Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V8 +[CM#30][cm30b10.txt]3867 + +A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him +A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover +Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high +For want of better support I sustained myself with courage +Interests of all interested painted on their faces +Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief +Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her +The shortness of each day was his only sorrow + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V9 +[CM#31][cm31b10.txt]3868 + +Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions +Arranged his affairs that he died without money +For penance: "we must make our servants fast" +The argument of interest is the best of all with monks + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V10 +[CM#32][cm32b10.txt]3869 + +Depopulated a quarter of the realm +He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him +He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself +He was scarcely taught how to read or write +It is a sign that I have touched the sore point +Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew +Revocation of the edict of Nantes +Seeing him eat olives with a fork! +Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so +Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin +Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V11 +[CM#33][cm33b10.txt]3870 + +Scarcely any history has been written at first hand + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V12 +[CM#34][cm34b10.txt]3871 + +He was often firm in promises + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V13 +[CM#35][cm35b10.txt]3872 + +A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether +Enriched one at the expense of the other +Few would be enriched at the expense of the many +I abhorred to gain at the expense of others +Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul +Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs +People with difficulty believe what they have seen +Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V14 +[CM#36][cm36b10.txt]3873 + +Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime +Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V15 +[CM#37][cm37b10.txt]3874 + +A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare +Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers +Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken +From bad to worse was easy +Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived +We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise + + + + +ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON +[CM#38][cm38b10.txt]3875 + +A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether +A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare +A King's son, a King's father, and never a King +A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover +A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him +Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions +Aptitude did not come up to my desire +Arranged his affairs that he died without money +Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers +Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things +But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity +Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything +Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily +Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne +Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime +Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high +Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken +Depopulated a quarter of the realm +Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch +Enriched one at the expense of the other +Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped +Few would be enriched at the expense of the many +For penance: "we must make our servants fast" +For want of better support I sustained myself with courage +Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply +From bad to worse was easy +He had pleased (the King) by his drugs +He limped audaciously +He was often firm in promises +He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it +He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself +He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him +He was scarcely taught how to read or write +He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge +Height to which her insignificance had risen +His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends +His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks +His great piety contributed to weaken his mind +I abhorred to gain at the expense of others +Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues +Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture +In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself +Indiscreet and tyrannical charity +Interests of all interested painted on their faces +It is a sign that I have touched the sore point +Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs +Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul +King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens +Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received +Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America +Make religion a little more palpable +Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile +Mightily tired of masters and books +Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting +More facility I have as King to gratify myself +My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors +Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life +Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief +No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools +Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs +Of a politeness that was unendurable +Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest +Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived +Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived +People who had only sores to share +People with difficulty believe what they have seen +Persuaded themselves they understood each other +Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared +Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it +Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew +Promotion was granted according to length of service +Received all the Court in her bed +Reproaches rarely succeed in love +Revocation of the edict of Nantes +Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing +Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated +Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms +Scarcely any history has been written at first hand +Seeing him eat olives with a fork! +She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel +Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice +Spoil all by asking too much +Spoke only about as much as three or four women +Sulpicians +Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince +Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her +Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose +The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar +The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured +The shortness of each day was his only sorrow +The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts +The argument of interest is the best of all with monks +The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies +The safest place on the Continent +There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin +Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so +Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin +We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise +Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me +Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe +Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself +Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses +With him one's life was safe +World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself + + + + + + + MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET and PRINCESS LAMBALLE + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V1 +[CM#39][cm39b10.txt]3876 + +A liar ought to have a good memory +Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy +Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen +Do not repulse him in his fond moments +He who quits the field loses it +Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it +Offering you the spectacle of my miseries +Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear +Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life +To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty... +We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking +When the only security of a King rests upon his troops +You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V2 +[CM#40][cm40b10.txt]3877 + +Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar +Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others +Clouds--you may see what you please in them +Dared to say to me, so he writes +Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon +French people do not do things by halves +Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits +How difficult it is to do good +I dared not touch that string +Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny +Madame made the Treaty of Sienna +Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed +Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense +Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth +She always says the right thing in the right place +She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V3 +[CM#41][cm41b10.txt]3878 + +Embonpoint of the French Princesses +Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity +Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act +Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend +Mind well stored against human casualties +Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other +Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction +Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly +Salique Laws +Thank Heaven, I am out of harness +Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed +Underrated what she could not imitate +Where the knout is the logician + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V4 +[CM#42][cm42b10.txt]3879 + +Fatal error of conscious rectitude +Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others +Listeners never hear any good of themselves +Only retire to make room for another race +Regardlessness of appearances + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V5 +[CM#43][cm43b10.txt]3880 + +Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans +Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion +It is an ill wind that blows no one any good +Judge of men by the company they keep +Les culottes--what do you call them?' 'Small clothes' +My little English protegee +No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience +We say "inexpressibles" +Wish art to eclipse nature + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V6 +[CM#44][cm44b10.txt]3881 + +And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short +Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess +Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans +Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues +Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King +Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters +Many an aching heart rides in a carriage +Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness +Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette +People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues +Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances +Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions +The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied +These expounders--or confounders--of codes +To be accused was to incur instant death +Who confound logic with their wishes + + + + +MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V7 +[CM#45][cm45b10.txt]3882 + +Honesty is to be trusted before genius +More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion + + + + +THE ENTIRE LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET +[CM#46][cm46b10.txt]3883 + +A liar ought to have a good memory +Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar +And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short +Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others +Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans +Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy +Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess +Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans +Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues +Clouds--you may see what you please in them +Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen +Dared to say to me, so he writes +Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon +Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King +Do not repulse him in his fond moments +Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion +Embonpoint of the French Princesses +Fatal error of conscious rectitude +Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others +Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity +Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters +Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act +French people do not do things by halves +Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits +He who quits the field loses it +Honesty is to be trusted before genius +How difficult it is to do good +I dared not touch that string +Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny +It is an ill wind that blows no one any good +Judge of men by the company they keep +Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend +Les culottes--what do you call them?' 'Small clothes' +Listeners never hear any good of themselves +Madame made the Treaty of Sienna +Many an aching heart rides in a carriage +Mind well stored against human casualties +Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it +More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion +My little English protegee +No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience +Offering you the spectacle of my miseries +Only retire to make room for another race +Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness +Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette +Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed +People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues +Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense +Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other +Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction +Regardlessness of appearances +Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances +Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly +Salique Laws +Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth +Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear +She always says the right thing in the right place +She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road +Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions +Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life +Thank Heaven, I am out of harness +The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied +These expounders--or confounders--of codes +To be accused was to incur instant death +To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty... +Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed +Underrated what she could not imitate +We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking +We say "inexpressibles" +When the only security of a King rests upon his troops +Where the knout is the logician +Who confound logic with their wishes +Wish art to eclipse nature +You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go + + + + + + + MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY MADAME CAMPAN + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V1 +[CM#47][cm47b10.txt]3884 + +Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service! +Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais +Condescension which renders approbation more offensive +Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice +Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake +I hate all that savours of fanaticism +If ever I establish a republic of women.... +No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune +Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune +On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune +Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation +Tastes may change +The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive +They say you live very poorly here, Moliere +True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it +We must have obedience, and no reasoning +What do young women stand in need of?--Mothers! +"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road" +Your swords have rusted in their scabbards + + + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V2 +[CM#48][cm48b10.txt]3885 + +Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch +Common and blamable practice of indulgence +Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power +Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting +Happiness does not dwell in palaces +His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs +I love the conveniences of life too well +Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger +Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom +Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities +Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet +Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil +The Jesuits were suppressed +The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points +To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found +Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation +Was but one brilliant action that she could perform + + + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V3 +[CM#49][cm49b10.txt]3886 + +Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin +Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning +Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one +History of the man with the iron mask +Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded. +She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony +Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal +Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured +The charge of extravagance +The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous +Well, this is royally ill played! +While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated + + + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V4 +[CM#50][cm50b10.txt]3887 + +Customs are nearly equal to laws +Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence +I do not like these rhapsodies +Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue +No accounting for the caprices of a woman +None but little minds dreaded little books +Shun all kinds of confidence +The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards +Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans +Young Prince suffered from the rickets + + + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V5 +[CM#51][cm51b10.txt]3888 + +Advised the King not to separate himself from his army +Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again? +Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good +Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order +Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life +That air of truth which always carries conviction +When kings become prisoners they are very near death +Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?" + + + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V6 +[CM#52][cm52b10.txt]3889 + +A man born solely to contradict +Alas! her griefs double mine! +He is afraid to command +His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day +King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing +La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen +Prevent disorder from organising itself +The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes +There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde +Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it + + + + +MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V7 +[CM#53][cm53b10.txt]3890 + +Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted +Better to die than to implicate anybody +Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King +Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend +How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes +Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family +My father fortunately found a library which amused him +No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority +Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune +So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty) +Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors + + + + +THE ENTIRE MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN +[CM#54][cm54b10.txt]3891 + +A man born solely to contradict +Advised the King not to separate himself from his army +Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service! +Alas! her griefs double mine! +Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted +Better to die than to implicate anybody +Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais +Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch +Common and blamable practice of indulgence +Condescension which renders approbation more offensive +Customs are nearly equal to laws +Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice +Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power +Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence +Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King +Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin +Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting +Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake +Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning +Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one +Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend +Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again? +Happiness does not dwell in palaces +He is afraid to command +His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day +His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs +History of the man with the iron mask +How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes +I hate all that savours of fanaticism +I do not like these rhapsodies +I love the conveniences of life too well +If ever I establish a republic of women.... +Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue +King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing +La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen +Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger +Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family +Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good +Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom +My father fortunately found a library which amused him +Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order +No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority +No accounting for the caprices of a woman +No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune +None but little minds dreaded little books +Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune +Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded. +On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune +Prevent disorder from organising itself +Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities +Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet +Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune +Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life +She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony +Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal +Shun all kinds of confidence +Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured +So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty) +Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation +Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors +Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil +Tastes may change +That air of truth which always carries conviction +The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards +The Jesuits were suppressed +The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous +The charge of extravagance +The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes +The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points +The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive +There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde +They say you live very poorly here, Moliere +Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans +Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it +To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found +True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it +Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation +Was but one brilliant action that she could perform +We must have obedience, and no reasoning +Well, this is royally ill played! +What do young women stand in need of?--Mothers! +When kings become prisoners they are very near death +While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated +Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?" +"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road" +Young Prince suffered from the rickets +Your swords have rusted in their scabbards + + + + + + + MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD BY A GENTLEMAN AT PARIS + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V1 +[CM#55][cm55b10.txt]3892 + +Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts +Indifference of the French people to all religion +Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice +Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers +Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable + + + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V2 +[CM#56][cm56b10.txt]3893 + +Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals +Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity +Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed +Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes +Future effects dreaded from its past enormities +God is only the invention of fear +Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence +Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration +Invention of new tortures and improved racks +Labour as much as possible in the dark +Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage +My means were the boundaries of my wants +Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative +Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused +Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee +Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara +Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts +Step is but short from superstition to infidelity +Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions +Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses +Usurped the easy direction of ignorance +Would cease to rule the day he became just + + + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V3 +[CM#57][cm57b10.txt]3894 + +As confident and obstinate as ignorant +Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass +Bourrienne +Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery +Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes +Forced military men to kneel before priests +Indifference about futurity +Military diplomacy +More vain than ambitious +Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern +One of the negative accomplices of the criminal +Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant +Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen +This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand +Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends + + + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V4 +[CM#58][cm58b10.txt]3895 + +All his creditors, denounced and executed +All priests are to be proscribed as criminals +How much people talk about what they do not comprehend +Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent + + + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V5 +[CM#59][cm59b10.txt]3896 + +Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette +Marble lives longer than man +Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only +Under the notion of being frank, are rude +Want is the parent of industry +With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction + + + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V6 +[CM#60][cm60b10.txt]3897 + +A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour +Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him +As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence +Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other +Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux +Country where power forces the law to lie dormant +Encounter with dignity and self-command unbecoming provocations +Error to admit any neutrality at all +Expeditious justice, as it is called here +French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder +He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly +Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese +If Bonaparte is fond of flattery--pays for it like a real Emperor +Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions +Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress +Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful +May change his habitations six times in the month--yet be home +Men and women, old men and children are no more +My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent +Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth +Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs +Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death +Should our system of cringing continue progressively +Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome +Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing +Suspicion is evidence +United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages +Who complains is shot as a conspirator + + + + +MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V7 +[CM#61][cm61b10.txt]3898 + +Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published +General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp +Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field +How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance +Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same +Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes +Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies +Presumptuous charlatan +Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity +Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition +Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy +They ought to be just before they are generous +They will create some quarrel to destroy you +Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same +We are tired of everything, even of our existence + + + + +THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF COURT OF ST. CLOUD +[CM#62][cm62b10.txt]3899 + +A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour +Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him +All his creditors, denounced and executed +All priests are to be proscribed as criminals +As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence +As confident and obstinate as ignorant +Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals +Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass +Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other +Bourrienne +Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity +Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed +Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux +Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published +Country where power forces the law to lie dormant +Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery +Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts +Encounter with dignity and self_command unbecoming provocations +Error to admit any neutrality at all +Expeditious justice, as it is called here +Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes +Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes +Forced military men to kneel before priests +French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder +Future effects dreaded from its past enormities +General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp +Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field +God is only the invention of fear +Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence +Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration +He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly +Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese +Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette +How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance +How much people talk about what they do not comprehend +If Bonaparte is fond of flattery__pays for it like a real Emperor +Indifference about futurity +Indifference of the French people to all religion +Invention of new tortures and improved racks +Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same +Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions +Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress +Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful +Labour as much as possible in the dark +Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes +Marble lives longer than man +May change his habitations six times in the month__yet be home +Men and women, old men and children are no more +Military diplomacy +Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage +More vain than ambitious +My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent +My means were the boundaries of my wants +Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth +Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern +Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative +Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs +Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused +Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee +One of the negative accomplices of the criminal +Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies +Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara +Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice +Presumptuous charlatan +Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity +Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition +Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death +Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant +Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy +Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts +Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen +Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only +Should our system of cringing continue progressively +Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome +Step is but short from superstition to infidelity +Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing +Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions +Suspicion is evidence +They will create some quarrel to destroy you +They ought to be just before they are generous +This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand +Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends +Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent +Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses +Under the notion of being frank, are rude +United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages +Usurped the easy direction of ignorance +Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same +Want is the parent of industry +We are tired of everything, even of our existence +Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers +Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable +Who complains is shot as a conspirator +With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction +Would cease to rule the day he became just + + + + + THE ENTIRE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE SERIES + + +THE ENTIRE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE SERIES +[CM#63][cm63b10.txt]3900 + +A man born solely to contradict +A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour +A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her +A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether +A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare +A King's son, a King's father, and never a King +A liar ought to have a good memory +A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover +A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him +Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him +Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions +Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd +Advised the King not to separate himself from his army +Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service! +Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar +Alas! her griefs double mine! +All the death-in-life of a convent +All priests are to be proscribed as criminals +All his creditors, denounced and executed +Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted +Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment +Always has a fictitious malady in reserve +Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes +And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve +And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short +Aptitude did not come up to my desire +Armed with beauty and sarcasm +Arranged his affairs that he died without money +Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests +Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers +As confident and obstinate as ignorant +As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence +Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion +Bad company spoils good manners +Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others +Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans +Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy +Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass +Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things +Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals +Better to die than to implicate anybody +Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other +Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass +Bourrienne +Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity +Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais +But all shame is extinct in France +But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity +Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess +Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists +Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed +Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans +Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything +Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch +Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux +Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues +Clouds--you may see what you please in them +Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully +Common and blamable practice of indulgence +Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily +Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published +Condescension which renders approbation more offensive +Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments +Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne +Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day +Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime +Country where power forces the law to lie dormant +Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude +Customs are nearly equal to laws +Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high +Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen +Dared to say to me, so he writes +Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon +Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken +Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King +Depicting other figures she really portrays her own +Depopulated a quarter of the realm +Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch +Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice +Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power +Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence +Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery +Do not repulse him in his fond moments +Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician +Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor +Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King +Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly +Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts +Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion +Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin +Embonpoint of the French Princesses +Encounter with dignity and self-command unbecoming provocations +Enriched one at the expense of the other +Envy and malice are self-deceivers +Error to admit any neutrality at all +Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting +Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God +Everything in the world bore a double aspect +Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped +Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses +Expeditious justice, as it is called here +Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes +Extravagant, without the means to be so +Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake +Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning +Fatal error of conscious rectitude +Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one +Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others +Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes +Few would be enriched at the expense of the many +Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity +Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things +Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters +For penance: "we must make our servants fast" +For want of better support I sustained myself with courage +Forced military men to kneel before priests +Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend +Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions +Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply +Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act +French people do not do things by halves +French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder +Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health +Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits +From bad to worse was easy +From faith to action the bridge is short +Future effects dreaded from its past enormities +General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp +Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field +God is only the invention of fear +Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence +Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again? +Great filthiness in the interior of their houses +Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles +Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself +Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration +Happiness does not dwell in palaces +Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be +Hate me, but fear me +He was scarcely taught how to read or write +He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge +He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly +He contradicted me about trifles +He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him +He always slept in the Queen's bed +He is afraid to command +He was not fool enough for his place +He who quits the field loses it +He limped audaciously +He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses +He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant +He had pleased (the King) by his drugs +He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself +He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it +He was often firm in promises +Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice +Height to which her insignificance had risen +Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese +Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen) +Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette +His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day +His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends +His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks +His great piety contributed to weaken his mind +His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs +History of the man with the iron mask +Honesty is to be trusted before genius +Honour grows again as well as hair +Honours and success are followed by envy +Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends +How difficult it is to do good +How much people talk about what they do not comprehend +How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes +How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance +I love the conveniences of life too well +I am unquestionably very ugly +I do not like these rhapsodies +I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two +I hate all that savours of fanaticism +I formed a religion of my own +I dared not touch that string +I abhorred to gain at the expense of others +I thought I should win it, and so I lost it +I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at +I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness) +I should praise you more had you praised me less +I never take medicine but on urgent occasions +I wished the husband not to be informed of it +If Bonaparte is fond of flattery--pays for it like a real Emperor +If ever I establish a republic of women.... +If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough? +Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues +Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture +In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself +In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife +In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal +In Rome justice and religion always rank second to politics +In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene +Indifference of the French people to all religion +Indifference about futurity +Indiscreet and tyrannical charity +Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue +Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny +Interests of all interested painted on their faces +Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed +Invention of new tortures and improved racks +Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same +It is easier to offend me than to deceive me +It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself +It was not permitted to argue with him +It is an ill wind that blows no one any good +It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery +It is a sign that I have touched the sore poin +Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions +Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress +Jealous without motive, and almost without love +Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs +Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly) +Judge of men by the company they keep +Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul +Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful +King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens +King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing +Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command +Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King +La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen +Labour as much as possible in the dark +Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend +Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper +Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger +Les culottes--what do you call them?' 'Small clothes,' +Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received +Like will to like +Listeners never hear any good of themselves +Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family +Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write +Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes +Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King +Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another +Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry +Madame made the Treaty of Sienna +Madame de Sevigne +Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America +Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect +Make religion a little more palpable +Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile +Many an aching heart rides in a carriage +Marble lives longer than man +May change his habitations six times in the month--yet be home +Men and women, old men and children are no more +Mightily tired of masters and books +Military diplomacy +Mind well stored against human casualties +Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good +Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage +Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred +Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it +Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting +More facility I have as King to gratify myself +More vain than ambitious +More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion +Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom +Much is forgiven to a king +My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent +My husband proposed separate beds +My little English protegee +My means were the boundaries of my wants +My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors +My father fortunately found a library which amused him +Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth +Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern +Necessity is said to be the mother of invention +Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life +Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief +Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference +Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order +No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune +No accounting for the caprices of a woman +No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority +No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience +No man more ignorant of religion than the King was +No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools +Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices +None but little minds dreaded little books +Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel +Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs +Not to repose too much confidence in our friends +Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative +Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs +Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion +Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused +Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee +Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune +Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded. +Of a politeness that was unendurable +Offering you the spectacle of my miseries +Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest +Old Maintenon +Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived +On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune +One of the negative accomplices of the criminal +Only retire to make room for another race +Only your illegitimate daughter +Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies +Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz +Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived +Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness +Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette +Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France +Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed +People with difficulty believe what they have seen +People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues +People who had only sores to share +Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss +Persuaded themselves they understood each other +Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense +Poetry without rhapsody +Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other +Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared +Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it +Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew +Prefer truth to embellishment +Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara +Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice +Present princes and let those be scandalised who will! +Presumptuous charlatan +Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity +Prevent disorder from organising itself +Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition +Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities +Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet +Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death +Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant +Promotion was granted according to length of service +Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied +Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy +Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction +Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune +Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy +Received all the Court in her bed +Regardlessness of appearances +Reproaches rarely succeed in love +Respectful without servility +Revocation of the edict of Nantes +Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances +Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly +Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy +Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing +Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated +Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts +Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen +Salique Laws +Satire without bitterness +Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only +Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms +Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life +Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say +Scarcely any history has been written at first hand +Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror) +Seeing him eat olives with a fork! +Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth +Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear +She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony +She never could be agreeable to women +She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel +She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road +She always says the right thing in the right place +She awaits your replies without interruption +Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal +Should our system of cringing continue progressively +Shun all kinds of confidence +Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured +Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness +Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope +Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done +So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty) +So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King +Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome +Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV) +Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice +Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation +Spoil all by asking too much +Spoke only about as much as three or four women +Step is but short from superstition to infidelity +Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess +Subject to frequent fits of abstraction +Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors +Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing +Sulpicians +Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince +Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions +Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions +Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her +Suspicion is evidence +Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life +Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil +Talent without artifice +Tastes may change +Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose +Thank Heaven, I am out of harness +That what he called love was mere debauchery +That air of truth which always carries conviction +That Which Often It is Best to Ignore +The Jesuits were suppressed +The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes +The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points +The charge of extravagance +The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous +The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive +The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards +The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace +The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day +The pretended reformed religion +The King replied that "too much was too much" +The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied +The shortness of each day was his only sorrow +The safest place on the Continent +The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts +The old woman (Madame Maintenon) +The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies +The argument of interest is the best of all with monks +The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar +The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there +The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire +The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured +Then comes discouragement; after that, habit +There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin +There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde +There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest +There is an exaggeration in your sorrow +These expounders--or confounders--of codes +These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple +They ought to be just before they are generous +They will create some quarrel to destroy you +They say you live very poorly here, Moliere +This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand +Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans +Those who have given offence to hate the offended party +Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it +Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends +Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent +Throw his priest into the Necker +Time, the irresistible healer +To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children +To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty... +To be accused was to incur instant death +To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon) +To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found +To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability +Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so +Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed +Troubles might not be lasting +True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it +Trust not in kings +Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses +Under the notion of being frank, are rude +Underrated what she could not imitate +United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages +Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin +Usurped the easy direction of ignorance +Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation +Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same +Violent passion had changed to mere friendship +Want is the parent of industry +Was but one brilliant action that she could perform +We are tired of everything, even of our existence +We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise +We say "inexpressibles +We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking +We must have obedience, and no reasoning +Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else +Well, this is royally ill played! +Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all +Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers +What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings +What do young women stand in need of?--Mothers! +Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me +When the only security of a King rests upon his troops +When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so +When kings become prisoners they are very near death +When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous +When one has seen him, everything is excusable +Where the knout is the logician +Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable +While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated +Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?" +Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe +Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself +Who confound logic with their wishes +Who complains is shot as a conspirator +Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house +Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses +Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit +Wish art to eclipse nature +With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction +With him one's life was safe +Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe +Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words +World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself +Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that +"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road" +Would cease to rule the day he became just +You are a King; you weep, and yet I go +You never look in a mirror when you pass it +You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants +You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go +Young Prince suffered from the rickets +Young girls seldom take much notice of children +Your swords have rusted in their scabbards + + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Widger's Quotations, +from The Historic Court Memoirs series, by David Widger + diff --git a/3730.zip b/3730.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..afefe9e --- /dev/null +++ b/3730.zip diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6312041 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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